Category: Sports

  • What MLB aces look like in 2025 compared to past decades

    What defines an ace like Paul Skenes in 2025? We break down what success looks like for today’s star pitchers. Justin Berl/Getty Images Baseball fans who grew up on 20-game winners understand — sometimes with much chagrin, sometimes with more emphatic degrees of horror — that the expectations for a starting pitcher are much different in…

  • 'It's a violent play': Why the rest of the NFL isn't using the tush push

    THE ATLANTA FALCONS, protecting a 7-3 lead, faced a fourth-and-1 at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ 47 with 9:03 left in the first half of their Week 1 matchup. For the Philadelphia Eagles, the playcall would have been automatic: the tush push. And the result would have been nearly automatic: a first down. They’ve converted the…

  • NFL Week 3 betting: Odds, lines and totals for every game

    Jared Goff and the Lions hung 52 points on the Bears in Week 2 and next will face the Ravens on “Monday Night Football.” AP Photo/Ryan Sun Sep 16, 2025, 09:45 AM ET Week 3 gets underway with a matchup of AFC East rivals when the Miami Dolphins visit the Buffalo Bills on “Thursday Night Football.”…

  • Eagles LT: Tush push chatter makes 'blood boil'

    Sep 16, 2025, 06:29 PM ET Philadelphia Eagles left tackle Jordan Mailata has had enough of the media narrative that his team won Sunday’s Super Bowl rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs because of the tush push. In an interview with 94 WIP on Philadelphia on Tuesday, Mailata said that it is “incredibly disrespectful” to…

  • Ranking the Champions League field: Can anyone stop PSG or Barcelona?

    Welcome to Year 4 of the Champions League rankings, where I … rank all the teams in the Champions League. This year is notable for one specific reason: Manchester City are not No. 1. In fact, they’re not even close to being No. 1. City have been the favorites to win the European Cup in…

  • Herbert controls game in Chargers' win over Raiders

    Sep 16, 2025, 01:05 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Much of the focus going into the Los Angeles Chargers‘ 20-9 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday night was on the matchup between the two coaches — Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll. Two coaching giants with a two-decade-old rivalry renewed on “Monday Night Football.”…

  • Wrestlepalooza 2025: Date, time, channel, card, how to watch

    Sep 15, 2025, 04:42 PM ET In August 2025, ESPN and World Wrestling Entertainment announced an exciting new deal that will bring WrestleMania to ESPN’s direct-to-consumer streaming service starting in 2026. The deal includes two-night events, such as WrestleMania and SummerSlam, plus other WWE premium live events including Royal Rumble, Survivor Series and Money in…

  • 'More wins': Mayfield hungry in Year 3 with the Bucs

    TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield may have completed just 53.1% of his passing attempts in the season opener against the Atlanta Falcons — going 2-of-8 in the first quarter — but he still delivered when he needed to. His feet never seemed to get settled and the ground game offered him…

  • Betting buzz: Derrick Henry stiff-arms betting public

    Derrick Henry failed to score in Baltimore’s lopsided win over the Browns on Sunday. Rob Carr/Getty Images Sep 14, 2025, 09:45 PM ET Everything that happens in sports has additional context when viewed from a betting perspective. From season-changing injuries to record-setting moments and so much more, the news cycle will constantly and significantly affect the…

  • Debating Week 2 overreactions: We make sense of the Lions, Cowboys, Eagles, Chiefs

    ARLINGTON, Texas — Brian Schottenheimer was having a rough week. The Dallas Cowboys‘ first-year coach had three extra days to sit with a tough season-opening loss to the Philadelphia Eagles before coaching again Sunday against the New York Giants. Early last week, both of his dogs were bitten by snakes. On Friday, his 82-year-old mother…